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Firefox 2.0 Update To Remove Phishing Detection

Posted by kdawson on from the way-past-time-to-update dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Computerworld and others are reporting that Firefox 2.0.0.19, the last security update to be released before 2.0 goes end-of-life, will remove the phishing detection at the request of Google. The browser is using an older version of the Safe Browsing protocol that Google will discontinue. According to the latest NetApplications report, about 25% of all Firefox users were still on version 2.0. This move ought to result in an increased adoption of Firefox 3.0 and other browsers, unless it goes unnoticed by most users."

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  1. Why would anyone use FF2? by Miladinoski · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I mean, it's ridiculous: if you like Firefox you should upgrade to the 3rd version and if in any case your OS is older and it doesn't support Firefox 3 I see no reason not to use Opera which supports every OS from Win 95 to Vista and from OS X 10.0 to 10.5 (unlike Firefox 3 of course).

    I see no need of using a browser whose support will end soon and with many people not using the latest version people who have popular websites (like Slashdot for an example) can just make the updates in their web pages slower because they'll see that FF2 is still used much and not add the so much wanted features (or they will work very slow in older browsers) because not a lot of people will use them. Yeah, they can say Upgrade to [insert a newer browser name here] but that won't make a lot of people update because they are lazy.

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  2. Re:How to get people to upgrade to FF3? by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have a better explanation: awesome bar.

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  3. Re:It must be made obvious. by GravityStar · · Score: 0, Redundant

    aha. Ahaaahahahahaha. Hehehehehe. HAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAAHAHAAAAAAAA.

    Wait a second, you were being sarcastic, right?

  4. Slackers by S77IM · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The browser is using an older version of the Safe Browsing protocol that Google will discontinue.

    Wouldn't it be better to update FireFox 2.0.0.19 to use a newer, supported version of the Safe Browsing protocol???

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  5. Re:A security update that reduces security by theaveng · · Score: 0, Redundant

    P.S.

    I'm currently at 2.0.0.12 and 2.0.0.18 will be final update. I'm not going to xxxx.19 if thry're going to disable my protection. Froget that.

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  6. Re:A security update that reduces security by dasmoo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I still don't see why they're pushing people so hard to upgrade to Vista.

    Because they won't work on XP anymore. It will not be supported and will no longer receive security updates. How hard is that to understand?

    Vista still seems slower and more buggy than the version of XP I have been using for some time.

    Except it's faster. kernel improvements, less memory leaks, a security implementation of sorts, etc. Vista requires less resources.

    I would argue that XP is not an obsolete product

    By definition, it is. It will reach End of Life.